The quiet

Theatre-maker and choreographer Anthony van Gog works at the intersection of movement, light and sound. His work shows he the audience not only look, but more importantly feel.

The quiet is an immersion in sound, light and bodies. In the centre of the room on a raised platform lie three performers. The quietest movements of the body, shivers of insomnia, excitement and fatigue unfold. Bathed in light, in each other, in sweat. Propelled by the music and the pulse of the body. The audience is in motion, walking around the theatrical still life. An invitation to the viewer to constantly choose position, in relation to the sound, the other and the performers.

Come closer or take a break, what seems quiet at first turns out to be full of movement. What is familiar feels strange. A heartbeat. Involuntary muscle tension, conscious relaxation. A sigh. A groan. A last breath?

With an ingenious scenography of invisible microphones, cinematic soundscapes and intimate painterly light, the invisible is made tangible. In a world where bodies are increasingly reduced to pixels, data and performance, it brings The quiet us back to what it means to be body: raw, vulnerable and real. An ode to the body in its purest form.

Interview with Anthony van Gog

“Choreographing with subwoofers” an interview in Dansmagazine with Anthony van Gog

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Press

Theaterkrant on Anthony’s earlier work crowdkill: “It is a powerful experience that really gets under your skin, not least because of the overwhelming, dominant sound emanating from the woofers. When Evangelos Biskas (performer – ed.) writhes and the sound evokes the same feeling, movement and personal experience briefly merge, or at least intersect.”